Last summer a Dix Hills, N.Y., man died after a drunken speedboat operator slammed into his fishing boat. His body was recovered nine hours later by Suffolk County Police divers.

During that deadly season on Long Island waters, three children also drowned when a powerboat capsized near Oyster Bay, prompting Suffolk County lawmakers to pass a law mandating that boaters complete a safety course by the start of the 2014 boating season, the West Islip Patch wrote.